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Eight Boors Drinking

Isack van Ostade
1621-1649

Eight Boors Drinking

4 1/4 x 5 15/16 inches (107 x 150 mm)
Pen and brown ink, brown and some gray washes, over black chalk, on paper.
I, 136

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Formerly attributed to Adriaen van Ostade.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at lower left, in brown ink, "I. v. Ostade". Inscribed on the verso of the lining, at center, in brown ink, "P. N ̊59"; below that, in the hand of J.C. Robinson, in black ink, "Adrian van Ostade / from Lord Palmerston's Colln"; and numbered below, in graphite, "10 / 2".
Associated names
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685, Formerly attributed to.
Palmerston, Henry Temple, Viscount, 1739-1802, former owner.
Palmerston, Henry John Temple, Viscount, 1784-1865, former owner.
Palmerston, Emily Lamb, Viscountess, 1787-1869, former owner.
Ashley, Evelyn, 1836-1907, former owner.
Robinson, J. C. (John Charles), Sir, 1824-1913, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, no. 136, repr.
Stampfle, Felice. Rubens and Rembrandt in Their Century : Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from The Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1979, no. 108, repr.
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 197.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department